IBM Asks For Remittitur Of $6M Emotional Harm Damages To $275,000

Mealey's (October 17, 2022, 1:17 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) filed an additional brief on Oct. 14 in a federal court in Washington in a case in which a former manager who claimed that he was retaliated against after attempting to stop IBM from discriminating against an African-American sales representative was awarded $11 million, arguing that the $6 million award for emotional harm should be remitted to $275,000 as there was “no evidence of actual physical harm”; the parties also filed a joint status report the same day regarding the former manager’s forthcoming motion for attorney fees....